The Corpse Collector in Conan
Chapter 2769

[Seeking Refuge with Jiang Xia] Please Vote

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That said, figuring out how to deal with Uzo seemed to be a problem.

After much thought, Jodie ultimately did not dare rush in alone. She decided to seek a little help.

"James had been unarmed when he was kidnapped by armed criminals. When I saw the news, I thought he was done for. But in the end, he emerged from that man's stage alive and completely unharmed."

Jodie stroked her chin and quickly found the key point. "I know exactly what James is capable of, so the key to his survival wasn't him, nor was it Shuichi, who tried to rescue him but was held up by a car accident... It was Jiang Xia, and the police officers he led."

"Thinking about it carefully, Uzo actually had plenty of chances to kill someone—take the recent incident, for example. If he had secretly planted a bomb in that car, then bribed one of the kidnappers to kill James inside it, he could have detonated the bomb afterward and pretended that the kidnappers had run out of options and ultimately perished together with the FBI leader... But he didn't.

"That means that although Uzo has caused us plenty of trouble, he doesn't like using violence to solve problems. Rather than killing people, he seems more like he's creating one dangerous game after another. As long as you follow the rules he sets and find a way to crack them, you can clear the game with cleverness.

"In a sense, being able to kill but choosing not to makes this guy a little unprofessional... But for his enemies, there could be nothing luckier than that—if someone with such principles were thoroughly caught with a weakness, might he surrender without resistance and willingly admit defeat?"

A beautiful vision spread out before Jodie's

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